Chapter 65: The Concept of the Elven Treant Battleship

Gangzi pointed to the pile of stones and said to Bob, "Bob, I need you to take the dwarves to process these stones into stone balls, which are 9 pounds, 12 pounds, 16 pounds, and 22 pounds. ”

"No, we dwarves are not stonemasons, and I hate carving stones." Bob shook his head, but his tone was very unresolute,

"If you finish the work I have given you, I will give you a cart of wine."

"No problem, we dwarves are willing to do anything with wine, guys hurry up and move, use our ability to open the mountain, this stone can't even make me sweat, I hate the feeling of not being able to sweat, Gangzi, can you send more stones."

"Okay, I've told the elves to look for it, how many do you want? Wine will also be delivered with the stones, so drink as long as you have fun and don't delay my need for the stone balls. ”

"Whew...... Praise Gangzi! ”

Striking iron, opening mountains, and smashing stones are the old business of the dwarves, and Bob and the dwarves spread out their tools and beat them against the stones, and the stone balls quickly took shape. As soon as the elves' experimental site was arranged, stones of various weights were piled up into four piles by the dwarves.

When everything was ready, Gangzi said to Joey and Mark, "Now for the first test, I need you to throw stones of all weights as far as you can, and throw them into the sea with your best strength." ”

Joey said, "Dear Lord Gangzi, creator of the World Tree, although I don't know why you asked me to do these strange things, the promise of the Treants allows me to do anything for you. ”

Mark said: "Is the race thrown far? That's great! I was finally able to throw it with all my might. ”

The two treemen began to throw the 9-pound stone ball first, and Gangzi took out his binoculars and stared at the sea, ready to keep track of the treemen's throwing.

Joey and Mark rolled up a stone with a rattan stick, and then threw the stone ball out with force, and after the two stones drew a large parabola, they smashed into the sea and set off two columns of water.

1200 meters. The elf in charge of the measurement in the sea reported the distance thrown by the two treants to Gangzi in the language of the flag.

Gangzi turned to the two tree men and said, "Can you throw it a little farther away?" ”

Joey and Mark threw it again.

1400 meters, a little more than one nautical mile, is still less than the distance in Gangzi's mind.

"That's not right," Gangzi said to the two Treants, "When you were in the Treant Forest, the iron sword that Mark took off at that time flew much farther than that, and it had reached the center of the Treant Grove, how did you do it at that time?" ”

Mark thought for a moment: "At that time, I was practicing with Joey in the sword, preparing to go to trouble with the orcs, and my rattan was not as nimble as Joey. I spun so fast that I suddenly slid the sword and flew out, I really didn't know it could fly so far and almost hurt you, I'm so sorry! ”

Listening to Mark's words, Gangzi's mind showed Joey what he looked like when he had just gotten the five swords. The five long swords were tightly grasped by Joey's rattan, and they kept spinning and sweeping around him, and the air flow formed a whirlwind. He was reminded of one of the competitive events: the discus. The discus thrower needs to use the power of the whole body rotation to throw the discus. That's a lot farther than simply throwing it out, and maybe that's why Mark threw the iron sword so far.

Found the key.

Gangzi said to the clever Joey, "Let's try again, this time we'll change the way we throw." You first make the stone ball spin, and then you will spin and spin as if you could wield the sword, and keep spinning and spinning, until you feel that you can't spin any faster. 'Let go' and throw it into the sea, and we'll see how far you can throw it this time." ”

Joy, listening to Gangzi's words, rolled up a stone ball and spun it vigorously above his head. The whirring wind grew louder and louder like the wings of a helicopter, and when Joey felt like he couldn't go any faster, he let go of the rattan and threw the stone ball out.

It's so fast! Gangzi immediately raised his binoculars to watch when Joey threw out the stone ball, but this time he didn't even capture the trajectory of the stone ball. Waiting for the elf's surveyor to send a message, this time Joey actually threw it to the position of two nautical miles.

"Great! Joey, I think you can throw it a little farther after mastering the technique, okay, Mark, you can also give it a try, look at your strong body, you will definitely not lose to Joey. ”

"Of course, I've never lost more than throwing stones, and neither can Joey." The proud Mark also followed Joey's example and threw the stone ball that accelerated to the fastest, Mark was really powerful, and it was already close to three nautical miles.

Gangzi applauded: "Great! Let's try again, 12 pound stone balls. ”

Through continuous testing, there is not much difference between the weight of 9 pounds, 12 pounds, and 16 pounds for the Treants, and basically both Treants can throw these stone balls to a distance of more than two nautical miles. The 22-pound stone ball was a little heavier for them, and they could only be thrown between one and two nautical miles.

Gangzi was very satisfied with this round of testing, and the performance of both tree people had exceeded his expectations. He continued: "Let's start the second test, which is to test your accuracy, and see if there is a target ship in a nautical mile position?" Attack with the 9-pound stone ball you did just now, hit it as much as you can, and I'll see how many stone balls you use to sink it. ”

The target ship at a nautical mile position was painted a striking red, and under the command of Gangzi, the two tree men began to test the precision of the 9-pound stone ball. Obviously, the two tree people were not used to this kind of throwing method they had just learned, at the beginning, the landing point of the stone ball was very far away from the target ship, and they almost accidentally injured the elf boat that recorded data nearby, but after they gradually got used to it, the landing point of the stone ball became closer and closer to the target ship, and began to hit a small number of them. When the two tree men each threw more than 100 stone balls, the target ship with a thin hull was finally smashed open by them and sank.

Gangzi got the record data of the two tree men, and waited for the dwarves to replenish the 9-pound stone balls before saying to Joey and Mark, "The test results just now are not bad, now let's try the accurate throwing of two nautical miles again." ”

So the two treemen picked up the 9-pound stone ball and threw it at the red target ship two nautical miles away.

After the 9-pound ball test, the 12-pound, 16-pound, and 22-pound ball tests followed.

The last two treemen threw results in Gangzi's hands, Gangzi briefly looked at them, and asked Joey, "Are the other treemen similar to you in terms of strength?" ”

"Of course not. Mark and I are both grown-up planters, stronger than the youth and juvenile species, but smaller than the ancient species, let alone the ancient species. ”

Gangzi thought for a moment and said, "Let's get here today, tomorrow you bring two young tree planters to the beach, and we will continue the test that we didn't finish today." ”

Mark said happily: "Can you continue to throw stones tomorrow?" It's great, I'll be catching two kids tomorrow. But Gangzi, what are you doing by throwing stones at the kids, they're not my opponents. ”

Afraid that Mark would catch two seedlings of the tree man, Gangzi hurriedly said, "I want two young seeds." Make no mistake about it. ”

"Yes, yes," Mark shook his rattan stick, "I still divide the youth seed and the seedling seed lightly, both are children, and they are not the same height, if you throw stones in the competition, I think it is better to call the four ancient species to participate, it will be interesting to compare with them." ”

Joey threw a rattan on Mark's body: "The four elders are preparing to evolve to the ancient species after being baptized by the World Tree. Don't bother them casually, and I don't think it's as simple as Tsuna-sama calling us here just to throw stones. Tsuyoshi-sama, can you tell us what you're going to do? ”

Gangzi said: "This is just an idea in my heart, but if it is not feasible, I will have to wait for tomorrow's test." I won't disclose it today, so as not to disappoint you in case it doesn't work. ”

"Your Excellency must have a point in saying that, Mark and I will go back to the Tree Man Grove, and tomorrow we will bring two young tree people here."

Seeing the trees people leave. Christol leaned up and happily asked, "Your Excellency's test today is obviously the procedure for the artillery test, is your Excellency going to call the Treants on the battleship to act as a long-range attack weapon for the elves?" ”

Having been in the fleet for a long time, Christol has long seen Gangzi's plans. It's just that Gangzi didn't say it explicitly, and he didn't have the habit of having a big mouth, so he waited for everyone else to disperse before he quietly asked Gangzi if he had such thoughts.

Gangzi has nothing to hide from Christol, he admitted: "I do have the idea of calling the tree man on the battleship, the specific situation still needs to see tomorrow's test, the tree man on the battleship away from the world tree battle must be rooted in the soil, we have to weigh the tree people and the weight of the need for soil will not increase the burden on the hull, will their volume occupy too many cabins, and even the impact of their canopy on the battleship's wind performance must also be taken into account, we can't ignore the defense of the battleship in order to stuff the tree man into the battleship, Speed and long-range capability. ”

Hearing Gangzi's series of difficulties, Christol's originally excited heart slowly lowered: "So troublesome? I thought it would be enough to plant them on deck. ”

Gangzi smiled: "How can it be so simple, such a big thing can't be planted in the middle of the ship, that's the position of the sail." Only by pressing on the bow and stern, the bow is easy to say, where is there a place for them in the stern, the hull must be extended backwards, then the layout of the rudder will have to be changed, and there will be ...... I'll tell you so much about what to do, you don't understand ship design, go and go, settle the dwarf's wine money, and ask them to prepare a scale that can call the tree man, and the iron ball should also prepare some, tomorrow it will be more intuitive to test with the iron ball, and prepare some more paper for me, I will first carry out the structure and layout design of the elven tree man battleship, and list the test items of the tree man in the past few days as much as possible as needed, I hope the tree man will not disappoint me. ”

"But my lord, I can't do so much alone."

"Won't you get someone to help?"

Sending Christol to work, Gangzi himself returned to his own treehouse and began to design the structure of the elven treant battleship.

A sloop cannot bear the weight of the earth required by the Treants, and only a brig can carry the Treants. There are too many ropes needed for soft sails, and the tree people need to rotate and accelerate space to throw cannonballs, so Gangzi decided to use the framework of the hard-sail brig, which is the frame of the Dahan V-class battleship.

The deck of a smoothbore gun battleship needs to leave room for two rows of guns to fire, so the hull is slightly wider. Now the new elven treeman battleship, because of the use of treemen instead of guns, then the width of the hull can be reduced, the length of the battleship can be extended, which can not only reduce the resistance of the captain to travel and increase the speed of the ship, but also extend the space to the back of the bridge, forming a rear deck for the rear deck gun emplacement.

So the layout of the Elven Tree Man battleship with the characteristics of a modern warship appeared in Gangzi's hands. Of course, this is just a sketch, after getting the specific data of the treants. The rigid generator can be calculated in more detail based on the weight ratio and pressure shunt.

"Lord Gangzi, is this the elven battleship you designed?"

The aroma came first, and I don't know when Elizabeth was already standing behind Gangzi.

"Oh, it's just a sketch, it's far from the real battleship blueprint," Elizabeth's breath was fresh and calm, making Gangzi very comfortable, "Did you come to me for something?" ”

Elizabeth remembered the purpose of her visit, and placed the stack of white paper she was holding on the table of the gangzi: "Christol asked you to send you blank drawings for drawing." ”

Gangzi smiled: "Christol is so lazy, I asked him to send it, and he actually sent you." ”

"No, no." Elizabeth hurriedly defended her brother: "He is really very busy, to complete the work you gave him, but also to learn the knowledge of navigation, he told me that his goal is to become the captain of a three-masted battleship, to drive a battleship like the 'Flying Henan', these drawings he originally wanted to send, but I see that he is too tired today, so I took the initiative to help him send it for you, you don't blame him, right?" ”

"How could it be. I'm also looking forward to Kristol becoming a good captain, he already has what it takes to be a captain, and I'm going to appoint him as the captain of the new Elven Battleship One, but please don't tell him yet. I'm very much looking forward to what he will look like when I appoint him captain, it's really exciting. ”

"Really?" Elizabeth was very happy, "It's great, it's always my brother's dream to sail like my father." Rest assured, I won't tell him, and I'd love to see what Christol's face was like when he became captain, enough to make me laugh at him for hundreds of years. ”

Why is my brother's mood so heavy. This is truly a merciless mockery of human longevity.

Forget it, don't see it like a child...... But in terms of age, my brother is a child.

Can't be entangled anymore, it's really going crazy, Gangzi shifted his mind and asked Elizabeth: "To what extent has your Elven Magic Association studied magic, for example, when Pabo Assabo became the World Tree, those five elves used several spells, in addition to those, are there any more powerful?" ”

As soon as she said magic, Elizabeth's emotions were immediately mobilized: "Lord Gangzi, the magic theories you talked about when you came to the Elven Kingdom last time were really amazing, using the magical energy contained in the power of nature to build magic circuits, and also achieve wonderful magical effects. The Elven Magic Association is relying on what you said, and has completed the construction of several magic circuits over the years, and the last time the five mentors used the 'Feather Technique' and the 'Wind Technique', I really didn't expect that the elves could one day want birds to fly in the sky, of course, that's not flying, but after our efforts, the elven magicians can definitely fly. ”

The jade world is an initial fantasy world, and there is no doubt about the prosperity of magic in the future, perhaps after thousands of years in this world, every apprentice who learns magic will be ceremoniously introduced by the instructors in the first magic class, and asked to memorize it, and if you can't memorize it, you will be punished by copying it a hundred times, and every magic exam in the future will have a question "The founder of magic is the great divine supreme great great demon master His Royal Highness Gangzi." ”

In order for his brother to leave a strong mark in this jade world, and to add bricks and tiles to the glorious magical civilization in the future, Gangzi felt that he needed to guide the excellent elven magician in front of him some more magical knowledge.

So Gangzi began to blow nonsense at Elizabeth again, from the origin of the world to the magic particles, from the theory of great unification to the change in the molecular structure of raw eggs into fried eggs, from why one plus one equals two to the three-dimensional structure of space.

Gangzi's erudition made Elizabeth feel like a child standing under the World Tree: "My lord, what you said is so profound, although I don't understand it, but I think it is very powerful, I am so far away from your realm, your knowledge is enough for me to spend a lifetime to climb, now I have a small question for you, you said that energy can be stored, why the World Tree can store the power of nature in the water of life, but we can't store magic." ”

Oh...... The theory is, but the application brother doesn't know anything, and the brother doesn't know what magic is, how to know how to store it.

Don't understand? Wouldn't the glorious image that Brother had just created in front of the elf MM collapse? So even if you don't understand, you can't say you don't understand, if you don't understand, make it up, anyway, if you can't study it, the level of your magic association is not up to standard.

"Ahem! Magical energy is both a particle and a wave, it can be transmitted, it can be released as other energy, and of course it can be stored. But storage requires a medium, just as water can be put into a pool, food can be put into a granary, and the medium for storing magical energy is very special. ”

Gangzi said slowly and in an esoteric tone, but his mind was running at high speed, thinking of some advanced storage theory to fool this elf first, and when he saw the drawings on the table, his heart suddenly understood.

"I call it a magic circle, and use magic conductors to draw it into a magic circuit, and the magic energy will form a circulation in it and not radiate to the outside world, so that the magic energy can be preserved. Storing magic energy is only a small part of the magic array, we can also use the magic array to record the use of magic at any time, and also use special formations to amplify magic to make its effect more powerful, and it can also be ......" (to be continued......